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Padraigh · Boot Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Western Mass

[Puzzle 4-19] Deciphering Cryptogram ch1900222589.jpg

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:48 pm

Svengoolie · Decorated Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 289 Location: Chicago

I've been following the idea that it's not a word search, but possibly a sentence scrambled in a bunch of letters.

If you start at the P on the second row, you can follow the letters to make it say "play me till gamers see sue find..." That's just what we were going off of, we're trying to get further.

It could also be "play me till gamefind..." but we figured that was too obvious.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:51 pm

Bonusuk · Decorated Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 182

Suggest 9 letter words related to the game and I'll put them into a vigenere decipherer Very Happy

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:01 pm

radink · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 31

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:03 pm

NobleKain · Veteran Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 72

Why not "gamefindb" ?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:05 pm

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Bonusuk · Decorated Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 182

gmaefindb doesn't work, it's been tried.

The whole point of a vigenere cipher is that is has a keyword of a set length.

I'm assuming a letter square 9x9 means Vigenere square keyword length 9.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:16 pm

radink · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 31

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:18 pm

Paradoxic · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 160

Give 'voltron' a shot. I tried it as the Grille but it doesn't work. The reason I say this is because there has been at least one incorrect aspect found on that toy (the legs are swapped, its left leg should be yellow and right, blue).

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:18 pm

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What about using the file name as a possible key?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:19 pm

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Bonusuk · Decorated Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 182

Nothing yet

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:29 pm

The Watcher · Unfettered Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493

Are we sure that is it a cipher?

I find it highly unlikely that something could be enciphered in such a way that the plaintext "gamefind" remains part of it.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:32 pm

Bonusuk · Decorated Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 182

Is gamefind plaintext?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:33 pm

Paradoxic · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 160

You can do it, just takes some effort. I also don't think we need to focus on just 9 letter words. It is in a 9x9 grid in order to appear like a word finder puzzle... so just flatten it out into a plain string as so:

TLCALBOILEOCPAYLKRLOITEMCOEKLLBYYOLAGAMEFINDBADURRBSLERSFSBFASREEESLRFEIDAABAEDGN

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:34 pm

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baobab · Boot Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 40

did you try challenge as the 9 letter cypher?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:47 pm

Bonusuk · Decorated Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 182

Challenge was tried Smile

**Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:52 pm